Lost Connection

Lost Connection

[barry]

Hi, not sure if this will be calssed as off topic or not, but I am a Ham and 
it is about Linux.

I have a link between Linux (Mandrake 8.2) and a windows XP Pro box 
(established by smbmount). If (when) the XP box goes down, then comes back up 
again, the link is no longer there. If I try to access it from Linux:

>ls XP_Drive
 I get 

ls : XP_Drive: Input/output error

If I try to access from midnight commander I get 

File 'XP_Drive' existd\s but cannot be stat-ed: Input/output error

The only way I have managed to resolve the problem to date is to reboot linux, 
I know there has to be a better way..............what is it please

Barry

ve3nav/va3wi

Re: Lost Connection

[Jack Zielke]

Hello Barry,
    You have multiple options.  Linux believes that the drive is still mounted
but the XP machine knows nothing about that old connection.  You can (as root)
run umount /path/to/where/you/mounted.

    As an example I mount a shared folder on my wife's XP machine.  I use
smbmount //wildhare/new\ stuff /home/jack/wildhare
If she reboots before I unmount the drive I have to be careful.  Any console
that is in /home/jack/wildhare or a subfolder will hang if I try to move out of
there (with a good reason).  From any console *not* in /home/jack/wildhare I can
run (as root) umount /home/jack/wildhare
If there is a console (or any program) that has the mounted filesystem as its
current directory you will get an error telling you that it is in use.  You can
find out what/who is using it by running fuser -v /home/jack/wildhare.  You can
force it to unmount by running umount -f /home/jack/wildhare.

The other option is to kill the smbmount process.  ps aux|grep smbmount to find
its pid.

I hope this helps,
Jack Zielke
KG4GJY
Quoting barry <barry_linux@rogers.com>:

> Hi, not sure if this will be calssed as off topic or not, but I am a Ham and
> 
> it is about Linux.
> 
> I have a link between Linux (Mandrake 8.2) and a windows XP Pro box 
> (established by smbmount). If (when) the XP box goes down, then comes back up
> 
> again, the link is no longer there. If I try to access it from Linux:
> 
> >ls XP_Drive
>  I get 
> 
> ls : XP_Drive: Input/output error
> 
> If I try to access from midnight commander I get 
> 
> File 'XP_Drive' existd\s but cannot be stat-ed: Input/output error
> 
> The only way I have managed to resolve the problem to date is to reboot
> linux, 
> I know there has to be a better way..............what is it please
> 
> Barry
> 
> ve3nav/va3wi
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Lost Connection

[terry]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Jack Zielke wrote:

> The other option is to kill the smbmount process.  ps aux|grep smbmount
> to find its pid.

... you might also try:

    kill `pidof smbmount` ...


-- 
73 , de WD0FPC
    aka: terry

Re: Lost Connection

[Chuck Gelm]

Hi, Barry:
 Yes, this is off topic.
This list is about amateur radio uses of linux.
Not about hams that happen to use linux for
non-amateur radio uses.

 I'd suggest "linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org".
Another suggestion would be to follow the suggestion
at the bottom of every post on this list:
"More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html"

 However, let me guess that you 'smbmount'ed a XP filesystem
on a linux workstation.  Then, when the XP filesystem 'goes down',
you are suprised to see that the linux workstation has dropped
the 'link' (smbmount)! :-|

 Try smb-un-mount'ing the XP-filesystem before the XP box "goes down".
Then re-smbmount'ing when the XP box 'goes up'.
;-)
See 'man smbumount'

HTH, Chuck

barry wrote:
> 
> Hi, not sure if this will be calssed as off topic or not, but I am a Ham and
> it is about Linux.
> 
> I have a link between Linux (Mandrake 8.2) and a windows XP Pro box
> (established by smbmount). If (when) the XP box goes down, then comes back up
> again, the link is no longer there. If I try to access it from Linux:
> 
> >ls XP_Drive
>  I get
> 
> ls : XP_Drive: Input/output error
> 
> If I try to access from midnight commander I get
> 
> File 'XP_Drive' existd\s but cannot be stat-ed: Input/output error
> 
> The only way I have managed to resolve the problem to date is to reboot linux,
> I know there has to be a better way..............what is it please
> 
> Barry
> 
> ve3nav/va3wi
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in
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